Abusing Hugh Davis: Determining the Crime in a Seventeenth-Century American Morality Case.
In this article, the author argues that "Abusing Hugh Davis" may well have been sentenced for sodomy, which included a wide range of male-male sexual encounters. It mentions that the book "The Delectable Negro, Europeans" by Vincent Woodward, categorized a wide range of West African sexual practices...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 117 - 148 |
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University of Texas Press
Jan2019
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| Sumario: | In this article, the author argues that "Abusing Hugh Davis" may well have been sentenced for sodomy, which included a wide range of male-male sexual encounters. It mentions that the book "The Delectable Negro, Europeans" by Vincent Woodward, categorized a wide range of West African sexual practices as sodomy, believing that Africans' sexual deviance was an innate outgrowth of their immorality and heathenism. |
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